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Content "Higher-Order-Vibes" Are Killing the Vibe Coding Industry I used to be a 10x Vibecoder. A prompt artisan with five years of vibe experience on my CV. My job was to whisper sweet nothings into our company's overpriced ChatGPT wrapper. The MVPs shipped one after the other. I was good. Then, word come out about "Higher-Order-Vibes": Prompts which coaxed Als to act like vibe coders. Some Satoshi-wannabe released the whitepaper anonymously, and it became the talk of every CTO. It was a replacement. A dehumanizing monstrosity which stood against everything I vibed for. My first day with HOV, I fed it a hand-crafted prompt for a meditation app. Then, it responded: > Prompt too detailed. Over-specified. Try to feel it more. I'll take it from here. Then it generated the app. It was perfect. Better than anything I could have put into wishful words. It even chose to use Elm instead of Svelte, and wrote a 500-word justification explaining that the vibe was more aligned like that." Let this be a warning. Our craft, our vibing age is coming to an end.

BEHOLD! The two genders of tech bros: those who scoff at astrology while those SAME MEN will literally build an entire neural network to figure out if their crush likes them back! 💀 Like, sweetie, you're writing complex AI algorithms with multi-head attention mechanisms to predict relationship outcomes when you could just TEXT HER?! The DRAMA of using gradient descent to calculate the probability of getting back together instead of therapy is just... *chef's kiss* peak engineer behavior! Who needs Mercury retrograde when you've got matrix calculations to tell you you're still single? ICONIC.

Remember the innocent days when AI was just about identifying cats and dogs? Fast forward to now, and suddenly we're in an arms race to create sentient beings. The escalation from "look, my model can tell a golden retriever from a tabby!" to "we're literally creating consciousness before our geopolitical rivals" happened so fast I got whiplash. Venture capital really took "move fast and break things" and applied it to the fabric of existence itself. Next quarterly goal: playing God with better ROI than the competition.

When Indeed thinks your software engineering skills make you perfect for managing a fast food joint, but still has the audacity to include a "This is a bad match" button. The irony is delicious – unlike what you'd be serving at El Pollo Loco. The tech industry in 2024: Spend 10 years mastering distributed systems and microservices architecture so you can flip chicken and manage teenagers making minimum wage. But hey, you get to "apply your skills in a new industry" – because apparently writing code and cooking poultry require the same skill set!

The corporate tech evolution in one image! On the left, we have Steve Ballmer's infamous sweaty "DEVELOPERS!" chant from 2000—back when human coders were the golden ticket to success. Fast forward to 2023, and CEOs are now calmly announcing how AI will "revolutionize our lives" while simultaneously telling HR to fire thousands of the same developers they once desperately needed. The tech industry's relationship status with developers: "It's complicated." Yesterday's rockstars are today's budget line items. Nothing says "thanks for building our trillion-dollar empires" quite like being replaced by the very tools you created.

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